Michel Houellebecq Quotes - Page 3

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• I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Suicide, Fall, Glasses

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever”, p.131, Profile Books

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• I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Important, May, Speak

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever”, p.91, Profile Books

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• I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Real, Thinking, Speak

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• The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Hate, Battle, May

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• Last election shows that there's a big discrepancy between two parts of the country. That discrepancy also exists in France, but we've had the National Front for forty years, and it only took Trump one year to get elected. Very fast. That's the surprising thing. In France we thought everybody liked Obama, but maybe the media were lying. Maybe they didn't.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Country, Lying, Election

  Source: www.vice.com

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• In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Hate, Reality, Tolerance

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• When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Past, Thinking, Way

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.183, Vintage

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• When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Country, Strong, Pessimism

  "The cultural whipping boys' manifesto: France has vomited on us for too long" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2008.

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• Islam is a dangerous religion.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Islam, Dangerous

  "Muslim anger denies prize to sex trade novel" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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• I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Bodybuilding, Muscles, Exhausting

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• My novels are all ideas.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Ideas, Novel

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• Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Father, Years, Parent

  Michel Houellebecq (2003). “Platform: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Reality, Garden, Years

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.18, Vintage

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• As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Teenager, People, Suffering

  "The Elementary Particles". Book by, August 24, 1998.

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• In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Writing, Thinking, Littles

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• Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

  Michel Houellebecq

  France, Debate, Happens

  "The passion killer" by Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2000.

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• Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Racism, Damage, Causes

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